Georgia News Digest 04-03-07

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1. book: Historical Dictionary of Georgia
Alexander Mikaberidze
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007
Situated in the breathtaking Caucasus Mountains between the Black and the Caspian Seas, the country of Georgia sits at the crossroads between Europe and Asia; it has gone through more turbulence and change in the last 15 years—the casting off of the Soviet regime, a civil war, two ethno-territorial conflicts, economic collapse, corruption, government inefficiency, and massive emigration—than most countries go through in 150 years. However, despite all its hardships, this resilient and ancient country, with thousands of years of winemaking, three-thousand years of statehood, and almost two millennia of Christianity, continues to survive, and with the new government's reforms, promises to improve.
Scholar Alexander Mikaberidze has created an invaluable source on the long and turbulent history of Georgia. The Historical Dictionary of Georgia, through its chronology, glossary, introduction, appendixes, maps, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions and significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects, traces Georgia's history and provides a compass for the direction the country is heading.
Alexander Mikaberidze, who is of Georgian extraction, has taught history at Florida State and Mississippi State Universities and lectured on strategy and policy for the U.S. Naval War College.

2. Russian-Georgian Relations
3. Tbilisi Lodges Suit Against Russia At Human Rights Court
4. Rice: Russia Should Treat Neighbors as Equals \
5. GUAM 15 years later: Georgia searching for sources of economic growth
6. Similar features of GUAM economies yet do not make the alliance an independent economic group”
7. Moscow’s Eurasian Alternative [excerpt]
8. Giorgi Kheviashvili to Meet with EU Ambassadors
9. Iran Accusses U.S. of Violation of Air Space – Abadan
10. Memorandum on cooperation in economic sphere signed between Kazakhstan and Georgia
11. Georgian, Kazakh and Azerbaijanian Energy Ministers Assembled in Baku
12. Ukraine, Belarus' lesson useful in Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway construction
13. Azeri Deputy Foreign Minister rules out land swap at Davit Gareji
14. Georgia's energy woes continue
15. Ukraine to have air communication with Slovenia and Georgia
16. Georgia not to waive any part of its territory
17. Abkhazia, Dniester, S Ossetia preparing for summit in Sukhumi
18. Abkhaz and South Ossetian Journalists Formed Joint Association
19. Lithuanian Officers To Take Part In UN Observation Mission In Georgia
20. Georgian interior minister says Russian-made missiles used in Kodori bombing
21. Georgia says antiaircraft missiles smuggled to Russia came from Abkhazia
22. Russian peacekeepers should stay in Abkhazia – speaker
23. Abkhaz Side Discontent with Cooperation with Georgian Side
24. Georgian Ministry of Refugees and Accommodation Comments on Searching and Reburying Missing Persons
25. Kokoity Founded State Control and Economic Security Control Committee
26. Burjanadze, Senior Lawmakers Discuss S. Ossetia Administration
27. Initial Draft on S. Ossetia Administration Unveiled
28. Former Employee of President’s Administration Released
29. Georgian parliament begins discussion on administrative unit for South Ossetia
30. Georgia Buries A President, But Not The Past
31. Three Citizens of Armenia were Detained on Georgian-Turkish Border
32. Georgia's former Pres denies reports he will settle abroad forever
33. Saakashvili Vows to Increase Pace of Modernization of Army
34. Finance Minsiter Lekso Aleksishvili: "Increase in budget revenues from income tax outlines economic progress"
35. Mamardashvili gets twelve years in prison riot trial
36. New banknote "symbol of freedom and territorial integrity"
37. How did Liya Khimshiashvili die?
38. New Rights call for second election for rectorship of Georgian Technical University
39. Hazelnuts instead of tea

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Jonathan Kulick, Ph.D., Director of Studies, Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, 3a Chitadze, Tbilisi 0108, Georgia (Republic), jonathan.kulick@gfsis.org, office: +995 32 47 35 55, mobile: +995 95 33 33 40, USA voicemail: 310.928.6814